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Czech Population Increased in First Quarter of 2022

According to preliminary data, the population of the Czech Republic increased by 3.2 thousand during the first quarter and reached 10.52 million.  The whole increase was ensured by the positive balance of international migration (10.8 thousand), while natural change was negative (–7.6 thousand). The number of marriages increased year on year, while the number of births and deaths was lower than in the first quarter of 2021. The population of the Czech Republic consisted of almost 10.52 million (on 31 March). This figure does not include persons who have been granted temporary protection in connection with the war in Ukraine. (According to data from the Alien Information System, there were 250 thousand of them at the end of the first quarter). From the perspective of regular migration statistics, a total of 19.2 thousand people immigrated to the Czech Republic from abroad, while 8.3 thousand people were registered as emigrants. The first three months of 2022 saw 24,200 births and 31,900 deaths. The number of deceased went down roughly by a third when compared with the years during the coronavirus pandemic. Compared to the first quarter of 2021, there were significantly fewer deaths this year (by 15.0 thousand, or by 32%), but compared to the average...

 by Prague Morning Jun 13, 2022
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Czech Brewer Budvar Reports Record Export Increase in 2021

Budvar, the Czech brewer that has been in a long legal dispute with U.S. company Anheuser-Busch over use of the Budweiser brand, increased its beer exports last year despite the pandemic. Budejovicky Budvar NP, a 126-year-old state-owned brewery, said Monday its exports were up a record 11% in 2021, reaching 1.3 million hectoliters. Budvar sells its beer in more than 70 countries. It said in a statement that all its major markets, including Germany, Britain and Slovakia, contributed to increased sales. Specifically, the brewer´s sales in Germany surpassed 500,000 hectoliters for the first time. Budvar previously said it registered a record output for the second straight pandemic year in 2021, rising 4.6% to 1.8 million hectoliters. Profit figures haven’t been released yet. The pandemic affected the beer markets with demand for beer in tanks and barrels declining as bars and restaurants were closed for some time while demand for bottled beer was on the rise. The brewer has expanded in recent years to be able to produce more than 2 million hectoliters of beer a year. That investment helped it react to changes in the markets amid the coronavirus pandemic.

 by Prague Morning Jun 13, 2022
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VIDEO: The Biggest Pigeon’s Race Took Place Today in Krajková

The biggest homing pigeons’ race took place this morning in Krajková, in the Sokolovsko region. 23,000 homing pigeons set out on a flight of several hundred kilometres from West Bohemia to Moravia or as far as Slovakia. The first pigeons made it back home within five to six hours. Pigeons flew 300-400 kilometers across the country. The first of them came back home (in the village of Havrice) at 10:01, after covering more than 348 kilometers.

 by Prague Morning Jun 12, 2022
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Top Czech News Headlines: Monday, June 13, 2022

If your day doesn’t start until you’re up to speed on the latest headlines, then let us introduce you to our new morning fix.    This year’s Book World Prague festival Jiří Theiner Prize has been awarded to Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich, who has in turn dedicated the prize to Ukrainian authors taking part in the event. . The Czech government plans to let companies pay taxes in euros from 2024, which should enable the state to raise its borrowing in the eurozone currency, Finance Minister Zbyněk Stanjura said.   Consumer prices continued to rise in May. The annual inflation rate increased to 16.1% in May, up from 14.2% in April. This is the eleventh consecutive month of growth. Inflation increased by 1.8 percent month on month.   Jiri Procházka stopped Glover Teixeira by submission with 28 seconds left in the fifth round to claim the UFC light heavyweight title in a grueling bout at UFC 275 on Sunday.   Czech carmaker Škoda Auto will resume supplies of vehicles to Ukraine in June and deliver 80 cars which will be assembled at the plant of Škoda’s business partner Eurocar in Ukraine’s Solomonovo.

 by Prague Morning Jun 12, 2022
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Czech Police Seize Record Amount of Cocaine in Banana Shipment

A record amount of cocaine was seized in a shipment for supermarkets in the Czech Republic, police said Friday. They said 840 kilograms of cocaine were discovered in cardboard boxes with bananas by employees in supermarkets in northern towns of Jicin and Rychnov nad Kneznou. Officers are now searching other stores in the country where banana boxes from the same shipment abroad were delivered. Police said they were cooperating on the case with their counterparts from other unspecified countries. “The information about the shipment leads outside the Czech Republic, therefore we will use international police and justice cooperation,” the police said, without further details. Jakub Frydrych, the head of the police anti-narcotics unit, told the Czech public radio the cocaine likely originated in Central America. The street value of the drug is estimated to be more than 2 billion Czech crowns. In a similar case in 2015, over 100 kilograms of cocaine was discovered in a Prague supermarket. In 1999, police seized 117 kilograms of cocaine in a warehouse north of Prague packed among dry fruit.

 by Prague Morning Jun 11, 2022

Czech Police Is Deploying Drones to Monitor Traffic Violations

It is very common in countries all over the world for motorists to break laws and then get pulled over by police officers. But often drivers escape from the eyes of the officers standing on the roads or cover up for their illegal driving behaviour as soon as they see an officer. Not in the Czech Republic, where drivers are being tracked from the sky using drones, in order to crack down on traffic violations such as speeding and failing to keep a safe distance. For the time being the operation is merely aimed at collecting data on the state of road safety, but eventually, drivers will be fined for failing to keep a safe distance on the road. Once the images from a drone are reviewed, a summons is issued to the driver with the corresponding photo or video clip. The devices are cheaper than the helicopters the agency had usually used to monitor drivers. Drones are better at keeping an eye on drivers around cyclists and pedestrians and in areas where flying helicopters is riskier. The drones have a surveillance range of 4km but need to be kept within the line of sight of the operators.

 by Prague Morning Jun 10, 2022
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RegioJet Launches New Rail Connection Prague-Kiev

RegioJet will launch a regular rail connection between Prague, Lviv and Kiev this Saturday, June 11. For holders of Ukrainian passports, a ticket from Prague to Lviv will cost CZK 229, to Kiev CZK 639. “RegioJet responds to the high demand of Ukrainian families who want to return to relatives and friends by introducing this new connection”, said project manager Tereza Ptáčková. Until now, people used mainly buses and paid between CZK 1,000 to CZK 1,200 for a ticket to Lviv. Czech Railways trains did not run to Ukraine even before the war started. RegioJet passengers will have to change to the Ukrainian train in Przemyśl, due to a different gauge in Ukraine. The train runs from Prague via Bohumín, Katowice and Kraków to Przemyśl and continues via Lviv to Kiev. On 1 March 2022, a humanitarian bridge using the railway was launched to transport necessary materials from the Czech Republic to Ukraine and refugees in the opposite direction. It was provided by Člověk v tísni (People in Need) organization and realized by RegioJet at its own expense. The freight mainly included non-perishable food, medicines and toiletries donated by various companies (e. g. supermarket chains) and collected within 24 hours....

 by Prague Morning Jun 09, 2022
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Steven Holl Architects to Redevelop Terezín Ghetto Museum

A team made up of New York’s Steven Holl Architects (SHA) with Marcela Steinbachová and Czech firm Skupina Studio has won a competition to redevelop the 1947 Terezín Ghetto Museum, housed on the site of a Jewish Ghetto where some 33,000 people lost their lives. The plan is to add a “Tower of Light” to the existing museum. This is described by SHA as a “contemplative space” that will allow visitors to experience “spectral light phenomena”, with refracted daylight aiming to represent “the colours of humanity”. At night the tower lights up, offering a beacon in the dark. It is clad in naturally weathering copper. The tower’s design is inspired by a drawing by Petr Ginz called “Moon Landscape”. Ginz was deported to the Terezín concentration camp where he drew the image of the Earth from the Moon. He died at Auschwitz at the age of 16. Work on the full Terezín Ghetto Museum project includes renovation of the existing building and the addition of an exhibition area, green spaces, updated parking and an information centre. The SHA team was picked from an international field of 22 participants.

 by Prague Morning Jun 09, 2022

Top Czech News Headlines: Friday, June 10, 2022

If your day doesn’t start until you’re up to speed on the latest headlines, then let us introduce you to our new morning fix.    Continued support for Ukraine, energy security, boosting European defence structures and the resilience of the EU economy will be among the main priorities of the upcoming Czech EU Presidency, Minister for European Affairs Mikuláš Bek told the members of Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee on Thursday. . Police have proposed filing charges against 21 people and one legal entity for corruption and large scale game-rigging in the second and third divisions of Czech football. One of the main suspects in the case is Roman Berbr, former vice-president of the Czech Football Association.   Over 70,000 refugees from Ukraine with humanitarian visas and labour permits have found jobs and  have started working in the Czech Republic, Labour Minister Marian Jurečka said at a press briefing in Prague on Thursday.   In May, the Czech Republic’s unemployment rate fell by a tenth percentage point to 3.2 percent. There are 235,468 job seekers on the register of the labor offices, 8190 fewer than in April. The number of job vacancies fell by roughly 7,000 compared to the previous month,...

 by Prague Morning Jun 09, 2022
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Lidice, 80 Years Later

Today, June 10 is the anniversary of one of the worst atrocities in modern Czech history.

 by Prague Morning Jun 09, 2022
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Top Czech News Headlines: Thursday, June 9, 2022

If your day doesn’t start until you’re up to speed on the latest headlines, then let us introduce you to our new morning fix.    The Czech Republic and Poland will start uploading large datasets on the refugee crisis into the European registration system of refugees from Ukraine that will be launched in the forthcoming days. The registration system will allow for a rapid disclosure of duplicity in registered refugees within the whole of the EU. . The white-collar workers’ trade unions have declared a strike alert from June 9 to push for their demands for a pay rise due to high inflation in the Czech Republic. The trade unions demand that the salaries be levelled up based on inflation to preserve their purchasing power. They have not reached an agreement yet.   The Czech National Museum has brought 20 valuable collection items from Syria from the Bronze Age and antique, some of which are up to 4,000 years old, to Terezin for restoration. The artefacts were transported from Damascus with the aid of the Czech military.   British blues and rock guitarist Jeff Beck is due to perform in Prague in July along with US actor and musician Johnny...

 by Prague Morning Jun 08, 2022
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Top Czech News Headlines: Wednesday, June 8, 2022

If your day doesn’t start until you’re up to speed on the latest headlines, then let us introduce you to our new morning fix.    The Czech Constitutional Court rejected the appeal of German tourist Benjamin Wittig who got a one-year suspended sentence, a 100,000-crown fine and a five-year expulsion from Czechia for spray painting the 14th-century Charles Bridge in Prague in 2019, the court database writes today. . Same-sex people will be able to conclude marriage as of next year under the amendment to the Civil Code the Czech Chamber of Deputies received today. The legislation was signed by one deputy from five deputy groups. Under the amendment, same-sex people are to have the same rights in marriage as man and woman. As a result, registered partnership homosexuals may conclude now would virtually vanish.   The Prague Metropolitan Court will start dealing with the supposed subsidy fraud in the Capi hnizdo (Stork Nest) affair in which former prime minister Andrej Babis and his aide Jana Nagyova are prosecuted on September 12. Judge Jiri Sott dismissed the request for a preliminary hearing, servers Novinky.cz and SeznamZpravy wrote.   The Opposition ANO of former prime minister Andrej Babis would win general...

 by Prague Morning Jun 07, 2022

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